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Standing onstage Sunday night at San Diego's Valley View Casino Center, the DJ Tiesto twisted some knobs on his Pioneer CDJ-1000 turntable as 6,500 screaming fans formed a sea of waving hands, flashing cellphone cameras and wide-eyed faces. Jets of smoke burst from cannons below the stage, igniting the crowd into a dancing frenzy. Among the most popular DJs in the world, the Dutch superstar is one of a handful of DJs who pulls down a rock-star-sized salary jetting across the globe to cash in on electronic dance music's rocket ride from underground movement to red-hot mainstream commodity. Tiesto spends more than 200 days a year on tour, flying from London to Bangkok to Los Angeles...

Electric Daisy Carnival Experience: The movie screening for the Electric Daisy Carnival Experience had been a private, invite-only event. But when DJ Kaskade tweeted about a block party, he may have inadvertently encouraged hundreds of uninvited fans to conver

Although the sudden passing of Whitney Houston has cast a pall over the mainstream music industry's annual pat on the back that is the Grammy Awards, it's all systems go at this point, with the Grammy eve parties lasting into ...

A first for the Grammys in 2012 was its album of the year winner apologizing for "snot" on her face, as an overwhelmed Adele did when she accepted her album of the year prize. Another first for the Grammys was ...

Nicki Minaj plans to get the most out of her first time appearing on the Grammy stage by using her set to debut material from her upcoming sophomore album, “Pink Friday: Roman Reloaded.” Look for Roman Zolanski to emerge.

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Young electronica artist Nicolas Jaar played the Echoplex in a sold-out show Monday night, and the best part of his set was the way he approached the perennial problems of computer-based dance music. So writes August Brown in his review.

This post has been updated, as indicated below. Andrew Dreskin, the CEO of the online-ticketing firm Ticketfly and an old-guard rave supporter, remembers a time in the sepia-toned days of the early aughts when dance acts were a tough sell ...

It's common knowledge that science fiction writer Ray Bradbury, who died Tuesday at age 91, was an inspiration to writers and filmmakers. Less obvious are the musicians who drew on Bradbury's work to fuel songs and concept albums. Times pop music critic Randal